The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 102
The Caliph stood still and distinctly heard a low weeping sound which seemed to proceed from a human being rather than from any animal.
Who acts: Caliph, low weeping sound · What happens: stand, hear, seem, proceed, be · To what, where: low weeping sound
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, low weeping sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 6 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sound | amod |
| 10 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | compound |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sound | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 proceed | mark |
| 15 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 animal | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 animal | det |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 animal | amod |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 animal | cop |
| 20 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 animal | cc |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 rather | fixed |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 animal | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 animal | det |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proceed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Caliph | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Caliph not said here | a low weeping sound | distinctly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | seem | past | a low weeping sound | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | proceed | to-infinitive | a low weeping sound not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | from a human animal | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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